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Mehiläinen makes offer for Pihlajalinna and reveals international expansion

As first speculated by HBI last year, Finnish health and social care provider Mehiläinen has offered to buy competitor Pihlajalinna. We talk to Mehiläinen CEO Janne-Olli Järvenpää and local sources about integrating the two companies, competition concerns, the possibility of a bidding war and international expansion, which Järvenpää gives HBI exclusive details on.

Funding change to force Finnish groups back into preventive care

From next year Finland, one of Europe's largest occupational healthcare markets, will change funding structures to incentivise employers to spend more on preventive care and less on medical care. HBI explains the law and looks at how it will affect the market.

Interview: Anders Lönnberg, Politician, Health Care expert, Sweden

Joyously replete with war stories lost and won, Lönnberg, a combative diabetic and social democratic politician has spent the past thirty years fighting for change in health care. So what has he learnt about how health care works? And what is the solution?

FREE BLOG New HBI pipeline tool reveals long-held investments 

Nearly a third of all private equity-owned health care businesses in Europe have been held for at least five years, according to the new HBI Deals Pipeline tool. That suggests many private equity houses are struggling to sell on their investments.

Humanitas may buy Regina Maria

Conglomerate-owned Italian hospital group Humanitas is in the process to buy Romanian healthcare group Regina Maria. HBI understands Mid Europa tried to sell the company before summer without success, possibly because of the price.

Medsi set for Russian clinic chain acquisition

Russian publicly-traded investor Sistema and its healthcare network Medsi is in talks with Russia’s largest insurance private company AlfaStrakhovanie to buy 100% of its Alfa Health Center clinics, according to the Russian press.

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